SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Oral Health Care Expenditures and Utilization, 1990-2010
- Notice Date
- 4/17/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NHLBI-SBSS-2014-112-RSF
- Archive Date
- 5/16/2014
- Point of Contact
- Rashida S. Ferebee, Phone: 3014352605
- E-Mail Address
-
ferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov
(ferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. Introduction: This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. 2. Understanding the Requirement a. Mission and Background: The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is the federal government's lead agency for scientific research on oral, dental and craniofacial health and disease. NIDCR is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of NIDCR is to improve oral, dental and craniofacial health through research and research training, and by sharing science-based health information with the public and health care professionals. b. Purpose and Objectives This acquisition is for consulting services to conduct research about economic factors relevant to oral health care in the United States during a twenty year period. The leadership of NIDCR wishes to include oral health economic data in establishing research priorities, in assessing the value of NIDCR funded research, and in communicating the value of NIDCR funded programs and projects to a variety of stakeholders. A seminal paper commissioned by NIDCR and published in the 1990s about the utilization of dental services needs to be updated. Increases in the availability of data about oral health treatment and improvements in econometric methods make it timely to conduct this research now. The objectives for consulting services follow: • Systematic review and synthesis of published papers about the economic burden and consequences of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and conditions; • Articulation of research questions relevant to the mission of NIDCR; • Identification of existing sources of oral health data relevant to the research questions; • Development of a statistical model for oral health economic research that includes treatment costs and expenses, healthcare utilization, quality of life, consumer health and behavior, and results from NIDCR-funded research; • Data collection, analysis, and reporting consistent with the research questions and statistical model. c. Scope of Work Task 1 Review and Synthesis: The contractor shall review and synthesize peer-reviewed, published papers about the economic burden and consequences of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and conditions. Task 2 The Development of Research Questions: Beginning with the preliminary set of research questions developed by NIDCR, the contractor shall develop, refine, and operationalize a set of research questions. The contractor shall recommend the modification or deletion of one or more of the preliminary questions or the addition of new questions. Task 3 Development of a Statistical Model: The contractor shall develop a statistical model that includes healthcare costs and utilization, quality of life, consumer health and behavior, advances in oral health research, and environmental factors. Task 4 Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting: The contractor shall collect and analyze data consistent with the statistical model and the specified research questions. Task 5 Reports of Findings: the contractor shall conduct oral briefings and prepare written reports. Oral briefings and written summaries, technical in nature, are required for Tasks 1, 2, and 3. An oral briefing with data summaries is required for Task 4. A final written report of publishable quality describing methods, results, and conclusions from Tasks 1, 2, 3, and 4 is required. Raw data must be submitted electronically to NIDCR upon completion of the project. Additional Requirements • The contractor shall utilize an interdisciplinary approach, as expertise in dentistry, oral health research, health economics, and statistical modeling and analysis is required. • The contractor shall work under the direction of the NIDCR Project Officer and with oversight by a trans-NIH ad hoc advisory committee on oral health economics. A single Project Director or Principal Investigator will be named to lead the project and meet by telephone with the NIDCR Project Officer weekly. d. Anticipated Period of Performance The proposed period of performance will be twelve (12) months from date of contract award. e. Other Important Considerations: • Respondents shall provide a Capability Statement format similar to the Capability Statement/Information Sought (i-viii) below. f. Capability Statement Information Sought: • The respondents' DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, etc) pursuant to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code: 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, small business size standard is $14.0M. • Respondents must provide, as part of their responses, both a capability statement, "white paper" addressing the overall project concept and insight as well as answers to the specific questions/issues below: i. Respondents' opinions about the difficulty and/or feasibility of the potential requirement or proposed acquisition, possible solutions and approaches that may currently exist in the marketplace, and information regarding innovative ideas or concepts; ii. Brief overview of services provided (core capabilities); iii. Information regarding respondents': (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information; iv. Identify potential technical solutions as both custom and commercial off the shelf products that may be configured to provide the functions described in the PWS. v. Briefly describe other relevant experience your organization has related to the scope of this requirement; vi. Contracts of similar size, scope, scale, and complexity to these requirements that are or were held with the Federal Government; vii. Vehicles and contracts held (vehicle, agency, expiration date), including GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts or other Government wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) vehicles (i.e. NITAAC, NASA SEWP etc.); and viii. Any other information that may be helpful in developing or finalizing the OPDIV's acquisition requirements. g. Information Submission Instructions All capability Statements sent in response to this SOURCES SOUGHT notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Rashida Ferebee, Contract Specialist, at lferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by May 1, 2014 12:00PM, EST. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 10 single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.) presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above and in the draft SOW. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concern's name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NIH personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. h. Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH/NIDCR, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
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